Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 122 Issue 6

Guest editorial: Towards large-scale industry-wide physical internet deployment

Hao Luo, Shenle Pan, Xiang T.R. Kong

A study on the impact of digital tobacco logistics on tobacco supply chain performance: taking the tobacco industry in Guangxi as an example

Xiaoping Shen, Yeheng Zhang, Yumei Tang, Yuanfu Qin, Nan Liu, Zelong Yi

This paper, with the tobacco industry as the background, establishes an indicator system for tobacco supply chain performance evaluation using the FAHP method.

Physical internet enabled two-tier city logistics solution in the new retail era

Hao Luo, Yilun Wang, Zhixing Luo

The paper aims to study the challenges and solutions of city logistics in the new retail era. The new retail, which is characterized by omni-channel, fragmented orders and…

Analytical target cascading for multi-level supply chain decisions in cloud perspective

Yun Huang, Kaizhou Gao, Kai Wang, Haili Lv, Fan Gao

The purpose of this paper is to adopt a three-stage cloud-based management system for optimizing greenhouse gases (GHG) emission and marketing decisions with supplier selection…

The impact of gamification on teaching and learning Physical Internet: a quasi-experimental study

Chao Wang, Jianbo He, Zhaodong Jin, Shenle Pan, Mariam Lafkihi, Xiangtianrui Kong

Today's logistics industry is facing severe challenges since global transportation demand increases substantially. Carriers are urged to reduce empty loads and CO2 emissions…

Physical Internet deployment in industry: literature review and research opportunities

Sihua Chen, Linlin Su, Xusen Cheng

The Physical Internet (PI) provides solutions to improve the current unsustainable economically logistics systems. This paper aims to identify the key themes and point out the…